Improving Cancer Screening Among Lesbians Over 50: Results
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Suzanne L. Dibble, RN, DNSc, is a professor in the Lesbian Health Research Center of the Institute for Health and Aging in the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco; and Stephanie A. Roberts, MD, is a doctor in private practice in Walnut Creek, CA. This study was funded by the San Francisco Bay Area Community of Women’s “A Fund of Our Own” and administered by the Horizons Foundation and the Lesbian Health Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco. (Submitted September 2002. Accepted for publication January 25, 2003.) (Mention of specific products and opinions related to those products do not indicate or imply endorsement by the Oncology Nursing Forum or the Oncology Nursing Society.)
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تاریخ انتشار 2017